The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-12-23

delegates, representing thirty -eight States
and Territories met In counsel together
over home interest,each with independent
thought, but united plan. il the finest illus.
tration ever seen Of victer Hugo's pro.
phetic utterance, "The Nineteenth Cen.
tnry Is woman's Century" Here minis.
terra, doctors, lawyers. Journalists, teachers,
experienced hoAe.keepers,phiIantr
and cultivated young ladIes. each bring
their special giits and graces, and In the
exchange Of thought each bears to the In.
diyidual work at home something Of the
general knowledge and inspiration Not
only Is the North and South, the East and
West here represented. but different ma.
tionallales, knowing no dividing line.
pundIta Ramabai, the high caste HIndu
widow, pleads for her sisters In India
Mrs Tunstall, OF Indian Territory. voices
the cry Of her Cherokee mates, that whisky
may be bound, and the Indian wigwam be
free and the coiorded Unions of Tennes-
sec and Alabama. organized into State
Societies, have graduates Of Fisk Unlver-
aity 10 represent them.
Nor Il the National Union more differ
entiated from other organizations in the
many lines Of work-ierty or more dis.
tinet departments, embraced under the
general heads Of evangellstle, educational,
social, preventive, and legal, each with
skilled leader at lts head, and duplicated
In State and local Unions than In Zee Ma.
tional President. Miss Frances Z. Willard,
who holds a most intimate relation TO all
these departments, and has heart.knowt.
edge OF ali the needa OF humanity. OF
her skill rs q presiding officer the Nash.
vile American has this kind editorial
word; "The manner In which she handled
the Convention. disposIng Of questions
as they came. and always usIng the exact
word required in parliamentary proceed
Ing, attracted the attention Of the gentle.
men present who were familiar with par
! Iiamensary law. Ttis, perphaps. not say
|. ing too much to say that Mr.. Randall, Mr.
!. Blaine or Senator Harris, the three best
!. presiding officers that the country has had
h since the war, would net hare shown
: more ability and tact Ia the chair than
e Miss Willard did"
Watkins Hall had been secured for the
= meeting OF the Convention, bat when the
: delegates were seated. there WAS small
|. room for visitors. When the need for :
larger space reached the authorities Of the
= Cumberland Presbyterian Church-ths
/ largest in the city, holding about twelve
. hundred-thcy hastenedt 70 offer It's use
which was gladly accepted, and banners
J. and banneretts, aowers, and women, were
!. speedily transferred.
Miss wiiIard's annual address, tns
morning Of the 10Th, was remarkable fol
b breadth Of vision and depth Of human
sympathy. "The bugle of your advance
{ strikes the key.notc Of the Church univer
sal, and the drum-heat of your hearts, now
' throbbing round the world predicts the
b day when natiens shaIl form one unIver
! sal brotherhood Your white ribbon Proph
Gales, the white flag of peace that yet shai
wave at the masthead Of every ship, and
J from the dome Of every capitol upon the
globe. For nothing less has God set Ia
motion the hone.hots Of all nations, with
the prayer Of faith, and the badge of snow,
and the song Of victory singing"
: Would that we could picture the Con.
vcntion at this opening hour Miss viii
lard's power of rlveting sil eyes, and hold
ing ali senses as she brought fact and
! declaration and prophetic utteranee In
: cicar-resounding words her compatriots
gathered about her--the silver haired
mother Thompson, leader of the Crusade
lin HilIsboro, O., in 1873. Hannah Whitall
/ Smith, the Quaker evangelist, Mother
Wallace, the Deborah of the franchise
: movement, and Ramabal, In native COS.
tune, and before them the tables crowd
ed with reporters for the press Of Nash
vile and other cities, and the audience
that crowded pew and aisle and outer hall
50 still that pin-fall might have been
heard.
One said truly, ''Could we, even score
Of years ago, have dreamed OF this for wo-
, man 2"
Prominent among the features of the
Convention were the Bible Readings each
morning by Hannah whitall Smith. The
: keynote Of them all Is sounded In this
one sentence @Love fulfills all other
; laws, but II must be the kind which is spell
cd l-o-v-e, not s-e-l-f-i-sh-n-e-s-s." The
welcomes TO the Convention, and the re-
sponses thereto, were given the evening
of the 10Th In the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian Church. Gov. Tayier, on behalf OF
the State, and Mrs Lide MerIwether on
behalf Of the w. c. T. L., cordially bid
them welcome, and Mrs. ]. X. Barney as
cordially accepted.
That the broadest liberty is accorded
members of the w. c. T. u. is proved by
the following bylaw passed on Thursday
morning
"No State Union shall be bound by any
principle espoused or plan devised by the
National w. C. T. u, except that all State
auxiIiaries must subscribe to the total aio
stinence pledge, and to the Constitution of
the NATIONAL
Memorial services were held Thursday
afternoon for Mrs. Shields, President of
Colorado, and Mrs. Tobey Secretary Of
the department of Scientific Temperance
Instruction. Tender mention was made
Of Rhoderick Dhu Gambrellby Mr..Snell,
Of Mississippi, and John B. Finch, by Miss
Willard.
| Early in the yeartiae National w. c. T.
u. had promised abanner to States in each